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, '---~ / H . • • � Specilackzed Horticulture, which is by the above definition not considered to be • __=, is defined ornamental plants .and other nurser such as bulbs, florist greens, Flowers, shrubbery, flower and vegetable seeds and plants and sod and fruits and vegetables grown ��• primarily under cover". | ' The Ordinance Fu ther defines Bona Fide Farm as "the use of land for farming meeting one of the following criteria: _ • . • (1) composing two or more acres on one or more tracts owned or leased by the bona Fide farm unit; . (2) average annual sales of $1 ,000,00 for the preceding trhee years; or a minimum of twenty acres of forest land for which a managm- ment pl n has been prepared." | . Under the adoptaJ Orange County Zoning Ordinance an attempt is made to both define bona fide farm and to distinguish those types of farming operations which, by their nature, would not be exempt, but would be subject to local regulation. � Specifically, these reoulated operations include specialized horticultural • operations. � � . The Orange Cbunty Zoning Ordinance includes, in Article 4.3 Permitted Use Table, provisions which ecoonize greenhouses as permitted uses within certain zoning districts. The Ordinance further distinguishes between Greenhouses with on-premises sales of producte and those without on-premises sales. In the case of the Former, those operations With on-premises sales are permitted uses as of right in tha following districts: . . • . l �^�� . , icultursl Residential (AR) • Neighborhood Commercial 2 (NC-2) . • CoMmunity Commercial-3 /CC-3l . G oral Commercial-4- (GC-4) � Existing Commercial-5 (EC-5) Agricultural Services (AS) - . Greenhouses with no on-premises sales are permitted in the same ` dlstricte including . Residential-1 (R-1 ) . The establishment in a zoned township of a greenhouse opor- , ation meeting all local regulations would receive a zoning permit on request. • BUILDING ORDINANCE . CE . • Building permits t be issued Upon request for the . which meets all Idical regulations. Specifically, these regulations would include the Zoning Ordinance, Subdivision Ordinance-, Sedimentation and Erosion Contol , Ordinance and Flotid Damage Prevention Ordinance. In issuing a building permit, the application for the proposed structure must be reviewed to assure that the site is not subjedt to a grading permit; that the structure if located where proposed, would ' the structure is to be located is a legal lot of record; and that, if the structure is to be located in a zone township, there will be no more than one principal use of the lot of record, all applicable setbacks and dimensional requirements will be satis- fied and the use the structure is either permitted in the district as a use of right or on the ba Lia of the issuance of a special use permit. . _ �o�